A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

And I went to New York and died for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.

But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure.

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen,' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies I wasn't even in the running for failure!

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Don't come home a failure.

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Every failure is a step to success.

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Failure has gone to his head.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

Failure is a part of success.

Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.

Failure is a word unknown to me.

Failure is always an option.

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Failure is impossible.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

Failure is not fatal victory is not success.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Failure is the key to success each mistake teaches us something.

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

Failure is unfortunately as common as success.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.

Failure too is a form of death.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

Failure? Scared to death of it.

Failure's a natural part of life.

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

I believe only in art and failure.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.

I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.

I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.

I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.

I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'

I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure.

I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'

I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.

I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.

I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.

I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.

I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It's not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That's how we're gonna do it, not by enlarging government.

I've had a lot of success I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

If you try to do your best there is no failure.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.

In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?

It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now.

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.

It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.

It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

It's not about failure it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Learning starts with failure the first failure is the beginning of education.

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.

My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.'

My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.

My reputation grows with every failure.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Nothing fails like failure.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

One failure is worth seven and a half successes.

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.

Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.

Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.

Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.

Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.

So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Success is always less funny than failure.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Success is never final, but failure can be.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.